Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 215, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1899 — Page 1

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01ST GOEBEL FOLITICAL, nEVOLT IXAl'GinATED IN THE BLiE GRASS STATE. Arrangement 3Iade by KentuckyDemocratic Dolters to Hold a State Convention on Aug. 10 TICKET TO BE NOMINATED AND A DE3IAND 3IADE FOR THE REG. LLAIl PARTV EMDLEM. John Young Broun Likely to Be Chosen to Make the Race for Governor Against William Goebel. IOWA REPUBLICAN TICKET L. 31. SHAW RENOMINATED FOR GOV ERNOR DV ACCLA3IATI0N. Sound Money and 3IcKlnley Flatform Adopted dominations and Platform, of Maryland Drmocrati. LEXINGTON. Ky., Aug. 2.-A political revolt In Kentucky was organized here today. The anti-Goebel conference, held for the purpose of calling a stato convention and nominating another Democratic ticket, or part of one, was ia some respects, perhaps, the most remarkable political gather ing ever held In Kentucky. The conference was composed of leading farmers and professional men, only a few politicians being In the assembly. It was composed of quiet, conservative Democrats. There was Intense Indignation against the alleged methods of the. Louisville convention and a stubborn determination to check the operations of the alleged machine. It was manifest from the beginning that the feeling was not against the whole ticket, but against its head, and, although other nominations may be made against those of the Louisville convention, the main opposition will be directed towards the defeat of William Goebel. The gathering was larger than expected. There were 720 men by actual count In the auditorium. Thirty counties were represented. A preliminary meeting was held at 9 a. m. to arrange for the conference, which was called at 1:30 p. m. W. B. Klnsolvlng called the meeting to order and made a strong speech. Dr. J. M. Tointz, of Richmond, was made permanent chairman. W. H. Polk, of Lexington, was permanent secretary. A committee on resolutions, composed of one member from each district and two from the State at large, was appointed, as follows; First district, J. D. McQuot, or ' McCracken: Second, Mr. Millett. of Davis; Third, E. L. Illncs, of Warren; Fourth, W. H. Sweeney, of Marion; Fifth, John I. Calloway, of Jefferson; Sixth, S. D. Hampton, of Carroll; Seventh, Jame3 Todd, of Owen; Eighth, C. II. Breck, of Madison; Ninth, R. E. Smith, of Harrison; Tenth, Samuel Patrick, of Breathitt; Eleventh, Matt Adams, of Knox; State at large, Charles I. Jefferson and J. B. Clay, of Fayette. While the committee retired to draft resolutions John Young Brown was escorted to the platform and made a vigorous, impassioned speech. He was constantly interrupted by applause. lie reached a. climax when, amid profound and impressive silence, he raised aloft an excerpt from the State Constitution on a slip of paper and eaid: "I am called a belter. My record. both private and official, la known to all men. if he who professes to stand by the Constitution of his State and defies those who would subvert It be a bolter, then I am proud to be one." The resolutions committee recommended the Indorsement of Bryan and the Chicago platform, denounced the methods of the Louisville convention to secure the nomination of William Goebel; declared the report of the committee on credentials of the Louisville convention was secured by shameful and fraudulent tactics, denounced "McKinleylsm" and other national affairs and provided that a convention be held in Lexington on Wednesday, Aug. 15, at 1 p. m., to declare principles and nominate candidates for the November election. Each county or legislative district was urged to appoint delegates to said convention, each county being entitled to one vote for every two hundred votes or fraction over one hundred cast for W. J. Bryan in 1S0. The counties are to select delegates as they may deem advisable. ' It was further resolved that MaJ. P. P. Johnston is now the regular and legal chairman of the state Democratic central committee, and he .Is urged to take legal steps in accordance with this position. The convention adjourned, after being in session two and a half hours, to meet Aug. IS. At the coming convention the anti-Goebel Democrats will claim the regular party emblem. According to lav? this emblem must be claimed every fourth year by the party, and the secretary of state must grant the claim. This must be made in convention. The convention at Louisville was fourth in the series, but It failed to claim the emblem. The anti-Goebel men will make this claim, and as the secretary of state Is a Republican It Is believed he will grant the request. It is givtn out to-night that the late, as far as it has been arranged for nomination at the coming convention, is: John Toung Brown, Governor; P. P. Johnson, Lieutenant Governor; James ONell. Louisville. Harry Myers. Covington. W. C. Owen?. Scott, James Todd, Owen, and J. B. Barnett, for attorney general; Samuel Lutes, Fulton, auditor; John Dodge, Covington, treasurer. IOWA REPUBLICANS. They Renominate Shavr for Governor and Speak for Sound 3Xoncy. XES MOINES. Ia.. Aug. 2 The Republlcan state convention to-day nominated the following ticket: For Governor-L M. SHAW, of Denison. Lieutenant Governor-J. C. M1LLIMAN. of Logan. Superintendent of Public Instruction R. C. BARRETT, of Osage. Railroad Commissioner E. A. DAWSON, of averly. Supreme Judge-JOHN C. S HER WIN. of Mason City. The first nominees are Incumbents and were named by acclamation. Judge SherWln was nominated on the fourth ballot. The convention in the morning listened to an address by Temporary Chairman Charles E. Pickett, of Waterloo. Former Congressman George M. Curtis, of Clinton, wai chosen permanent chairman. He rpoke briefly, sayIns, in part: 'The Republican party will, if Ctrmltted by Providence, continue to ad

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minister the affairs and finance and will successfully grapple with the problem of unlawful trusts and combines, so that no oppression or tyranny or Injurious monopolies shall distress or burden he people. The Republican party will mr "4 government In the future, as I' ha3 been In the past under its c 'CA

cles, a superior genius the idorvi. citizens and the admiration of thew world." After approving the administrations of President McKlnley and Governor Shaw, the resolutions adopted by the convention state: "We commend the action of the Iowa delegation in Congress in its support of protection, of the DinKley law, of tne maintenance of the gold standard and In its faithful support of the administration of President McKlnley in his policy in peace and war. "We rejoice in the prospective election of David B. Henderson to be speaker of the House of Representatives and indorse him as wholly worthy of that honor. "We readopt the following declaration from the Iowa Republican platform of 1598: The monetary standard of this country and the commercial world is geld. The permanence of this standard must be assured by congressional legislation giving to It the validity and vitality of public law. All other money must be kept at parity with gold. And we urgently call upon our senators and representatives in Congress to lend their best endeavors to enact these"Vroposltions into law. "We denounce the Chicago platform and its declaration in favor of free trade and free silver coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1, and its attacks upon the courts as threatening the American people with a departure from the policies of good government that would prove fraught with evil to the American people. The enormities of that platform call for the resistance of all good citizens. As Republicans we make recognition of the loyalty and exalted patriotism of the sound-money Democrats and men of all parties who put aside partisanship in order to maintain the good faith of the Nation and in resistance to the Chicago platform and Its candidate. To maintain the welfare of the people Is the object of all government. "Industry and commerce should be left free to pursue their method according to the natural laws of the world, but when the business aggregations known as trusts prove hurtful to the people they must be restrained by natural laws, and. If need be, abolished. "We believe in the wisdom and high purpose of the President of the United States. "We admire the skill and courage of our officers and glory in the valor, the constancy, the hereditary heroism of our soldier boys of the army and navy. Nothing: of support or sympathy, or moral or material aid and comfort will be ever withheld from them. "TheM shall be no division among us until all In arms against the flag shall confess the supreme rights and honor and shall know that even In the farthest East it is the sign and promise cf equal law, of Justice and liberty throughout the land and to all the Inhabitants thereof. "That for the national defense, for the reinforcement of the navy, for the enlargement of our foreign markets, for the employment of American worklngmen in the mines, forests, farms, mills, factories and shipyards we favor the enactment of legislation which will regain for American ships the carrying of our foreign commerce. Governor Shaw made a speech eulogizing President McKlnley, the Republican party and Iowa's delegation to Congress. At the afternoon session the convention listened to an address by former Congressman George W. Curtis, permanent chairman, and adjourned sine die after completing its work. 31 AH Y LAND DEMOCRATS. Their State Ticket and riatform-Cen-sorslilp of Press Condemned. BALTIMORE, Aug. 2. The Democratic stat.s convention, which was held at Ford's Opera House In this city to-day, resulted in the nomination of the following ticket: For Governor JOHN WALTER SMITH, of Worcester county. Attorney General ISIDOR RAYNER, of Baltimore. Controller-JOSHUA WHER1NG, of Carroll county. The convention was unusually harmonious and all the nominations were made by acclamation, Edwin Warneld, Mr. Smith's principal opponent, withdrawing at the last moment and placing the successful candidate in nomination. That portion of the platform which refers to national Issues follows: "We insist that In time of war, as well as of peace, the freedom of the press shall to preserved, and that the right of the people to criticise freely the policy and conduct of the administration shall be demanded at all hazards. No deadlier blow can be dealt to American liberty than the suppression by an abuse of executive power of the. free utterance by American freemen of their sentiments on matters of public concern a fleeting the welfare of the people, and we denounce as dangerous and Indefensible all efforts to Interfere with and abridge this sacred right. "We declare our unalterable opposition to the creation and maintenance of a large standing army in time of peace, and we insist on the supremacy of the civil over the military authority, and we demand the strictest economy in the collection and disbursement of the public revenues. "We believe in the time-honored doctrine, so earnestly Impressed on us by the 'fathers of the Republic of peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none. "We view with alarm the multiplication over the land of such gigantic industrial and commercial trusts, the outgrowth of Republican legislation, as stifling to competition, threatening to popular government, increasing the cost of living and curtailing the individual rights of the people: and we favor vigorous measures by the States and by Congress to repress this great and growing evil." The platform declares that the Republican party Is responsible for the numerous violations of the law on the part of the negroes, because the latter believe they will be afforded protection and immunity from punishment by reason of their votes, which, the platform asserts, are cast almost solidly for the Republican ticket. John Walter Smith, the nominee for Governor, Is a banker, and resides in Snow Hill, Worcester county. He has served in the state Senate for three consecutive terms and was elected to Congiess last No vember from the First district. Isldor Rayner, the nominee for attorney general, is a lawyer and has long been porminent in the political and social circles of the State. He served In the Fiftieth, Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses and is regarded as one of the best political orators of Maryland. All the candidates are favorable to a gold standard. The date for holding the Republican state convention has not yet been announced. Governor Lloyd Lowndes has practically no opposition for renomlnatlon. Democratic Deadlock. FULTON. Mo., Aug. 2. The Eighth district Democratic convention to nominate a successor to the late Congressman Richard P. Bland met here to-day. After taking fifty-three ballots without a nomination and practically without change the body adjourned until to-morrow. Judge Shackleford, of Sedalla. is in the lead. WILL BE DEPORTED. Austrian Miners Who Were Arrested by the Immigration CommlsslonerNEW YORK. Aug. 2. Judge Thomas, In the United States District Court, to-day dismissed a writ of habeas corpus procured in the case of Mate Stascovlo and seventeen other miners from Austria, who arrived at this port on June 1 last and were permitted to land and went to Rathburn. Ia., where they secured work as miners. It is alleged in the petition for the writ that after they had been at work abput a week they were arrested by agents of the immigration commissioner, brought back to this city and were about to be deported to Austria on a warrant issued by tho secretary of the treasury that they had come to this country under contract. Judge Thomas, in dismissing the writ, raid that while he considered the law unnecessarily harsh ana severe, yet as long as the Constitution gave the power to the secretary of the treasury to act in uch matters the court had no power to Intervene,

ALGER AT HOME

WELCOMED BACK TO DETROIT I1Y r THOUSANDS OP PEOPLE. An Ovation That So Pleased the General Tears Flowed as He Tried to Return Thanks with Smiles. NOT A DISSENTING VOICE HEARD IX REPLY TO THE REPEATED YELL, "ALGER'S ALL RIGHT." "Welcoming Speech by 3Iayor Maybnry and a Characteristic Address by. . Governor Pingree. DENUNCIATION OF THE PRESS CHARGED WITn A CAMPAIGN OF 3IISREFRESENTATION AND LIES. Drlef Speech by General Alffer In R turning Thanks for the Demonstra tl on Reception at Xlsht. DETROIT, Mich., Aug. l-Gen. Russell A. Alger received a magnificent welcome from the people of bis own city and State to-day. From 4 o'clock, when the welcoming committee crowded Into his private car on its arrival at Toledo, until 9 o'clock, when the general ceased grasping outstretched hands, he had an ovation. Smiles and tears repeatedly struggled for the mastery over the secretary's bronzed countenance as he gazed Into the eager faces of the multitudes who loudly and convincingly insisted that "Alger's all right," and no dissonant voice was heard. Darkness fell during the speeches from the reviewing stand in front of the City Hall, giving opportunity for throwing a searchlight on the features of General Alger, drawn In crayon on a canvas- sixteen feet square hung from the City Hall front and surrounded by patriotic decorations. A great crush at the indoor reception was the final feature. The special train which met General Alger carried" 400 members of the reception committee. When the train arrived the general's car was besieged by his old friends. General Alger was escorted through the reception train and greeted by all. Headed by about 300 bicyclists, over 1,000 marchers escorted General Alger fromhe station, going past the general's home to the reviewing stand. Militia and veterans of the civil war. Including Fairbanks Post, G. A. R., of which the general is a member, a company of Spanish war veterans and scores of marchers in secret society uniforms, filed past. Fairbanks Post carried two great banners, stretching half across the street, which declared, "There is only one Alger." THE MAYOR'S WELCOME. When General Alger appeared upon the reviewing stand there was a roar of applause from the crowd in the Campus Martiu3. The ex-secretary reviewed the parade and returned the salutations of many marchers, especially those of veteran G. A. R. comrades. Mayor Maybury, after calling order, said: "General Alger. I should despair, sir, of being able to voice the heartiness of this welcome were it not already shown in this tast concourse through whom you have passed. It will go forth to the world, sir, that where you are beet known there you are best beloved and best appreciated. It will go forth to the world, sir, a dUe notice that the Standard of high character, built up by patience and perseverance, honesty and uprightness, cannot be thrown down by slander. "I welcome you home, sir, to a people who love Justice and fair play. This welcome Is by your neighbors. They come from all parts of this glorious State only for the purpose of saying 'God ble?s you and 'welcome home. You have come home to walk these streets as before. You will command and carry with you the same confidence, affection and esteem that have been with you all your life. Men will say that with an upright character so well established there is no power on earth that can detract from the fame of a good neighbor and citizen and honest man." PINGREE'S SPEECH. Governor Pingree, in his speech read In behalf of the State, made, somo pointed references to incidents leading to Alger's hcme-comlng and fired some characteristic shots at the newspapers, which, he asserted, were largely responlsble. The Governor said that Alger's best service for his country was in his efficient management of the War Department. Said he: "Without your energy, business ability and 'experience no one knows how long it might have lasted. You were handicapped by machinery in your department which was ancient and obsolete. Jn spite of It you contributed more than anyone else to bringing the conflict to an end, with a loss of life so email as to astonish the world. "The facts which led you to submit your resignation to the President are wed known. The treatment which you have received has justly aroused the resentment of fairminded Americans. The people of Michigan look upon the manner In which your withdrawal from the Cabinet was forced as an Insult to the State. They are here to-day to rebuke the cupidity of politicians, high and low. They are here to show their contempt for the cowardly attacks of a venal press. "A mean spirited and unscrupulous press has carried on a campaign of deliberate misrepresentation and lies concerning your business management of the War Department. The people of Michigan know that these attacks are absolutely without Justification. In spite of the obsolete customs and system, of your department you contributed more than any one to bring the war with Spain to a quick end. You did so although hindered by the Interference of others unfit to handle business or military affairs. "The people of Michigan will remember the indignity to which the State has been subjected, in time they will come to know who is responsible for it. I think they already see that politics makes cowards of some men, in both high and low position. They will in time despise the official, no matter how exalted his position, who gave himself, truckled tc the newspapers or who considered money or Influence In any form. They will turn away from every official representative of Michigan at Washington who has stood by without protest and permitted a citizen of the State to be as grossly abused and misrepresented as you have been. They will not forget the cowardlyn conduct of some of the newspapers and

public men of the State who have by their silence practically Joined in the attacks upon you. The sense of justice and fair play of our people will not support such methods. They will be apparent when the people of our State express themselves at the polls. ( "I know that some people think It unwise upon an occasion like this to voice such sentiments as I have been expressing. I say to them that truth is never out of place. I also say that there is no better way of showing our appreciation of your worth as a citizen of Michigan than by exposing the methods of those who have been a part of the conspiracy to discredit you and insult the State and its people. "I have come to believe that the institution most dangerous to our form of government is the newspaper. Its boasted liberty is rather a license. It has no scruple and no conscience. There are, of course, exceptions, but I speak of the press as a whole. Because you. General Alger, would not bow to them and conduct the War Department in the Interest of the combines, the army contractors and the commercial Interests which control the newspapers, you became a marked man. I know I voice the sentiment of the people of Michigan when I cay to you that we'have every faith that history will rebuke the - newspapers and politicians of highest and lowest station who have used such vile methods to accomplish their little purposes." GENERAL ALGER'S RESPONSE. General Alger, responding, said: "I can command no language to express my gratitude to you for this royal welcome to my home. I am glad from the bottom of my heart to be released from official care and to again enter the old home and live among the people of Michigan. "Since I went away two aid a half years ago, as you know, the country has been through a terrific struggle. The office of which I was at the head was taxed to the utmost of every man's strength who occupied any position In It. I gave my best thought and honest effort and did everything I could to carry out my part of that great work. What has been done Is a matter of record, and I am perfectly wllUng to rest the case with my countrymen. Every transaction, every order, and everything that was done in conducting that war is a matter of record, and the people have a right to have that record searched. "And now, my fellow-citlzena, I come home without a grievance. During that struggle and while that great work was upon me I can truthfully say that I had from the President all the support that he could give. We went through that struggle and came out victorious. We transported across the seas more than 130,000 men one way and the other without an accident. We fought battles in the Philippines, in Cuba and irt Porto Rico and we never lost a battle, a color, a prisoner or a gun. Vherever the American flag was planted by the American soldier there It stands and there it shall stand forever. But, as I said, I have no speech to make. I am glad to bo among you again, a private citizen, and that I can travel these streets and meet you In social and business intercourse, and I propose to stay here the balance of my life. Goodnight." The closing scene was a reception in the City Hall corridor. Mrs. Alger and a score of other ladles, with several of the general's relatives, viewed the scene from a canopied decorated platform built Into the main stairway and thousands pushed past and grasped General Alger's hand. LEAVES ALL FOR RELIGION. Miss Van Norden, Heiress to Millions, to Join Salvation Army.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2. It Is said that society gives another recruit to the Salvation Army this week In the person of Miss Cora Langdon Van Norden, beautiful, accomplished, heiress to millions, the daughter of Warner Van Norden, president of the Bank of North America and member of many exclusive clubs and societies. She has followed her equally beautiful sister, Miss Emma. Van Norden, who has b;en a. hard-working field officer for seven years, into the fold. Unless the father interferes the Young Soldier, which Is the official gazette, of the Junior members of the Salvation Army, will announce It In the issue which appears this week. Colonel Lewis, now In charge at Salvation Army headquarters in the absence of General Booth-Tucker, made this public to-day. Miss Van Norden will be editor of the little weekly. When in 1SS2 Miss Van Norden's elder sister renounced worldly amusements for the Salvation Army Miss Cora became mistress of the beautiful home at No. IS West Forty-eighth street, where she lived with her father and her brother. Four weeks ago Miss Cora announced her determination to enlist. Everything was done to dissuade her, but to no purpose. TWO MEN ELECTROCUTED. Oscar E. Rice and John Kennedy Fat to Death la Prison. AUBURN, N. Y., Aug. 2.-Oscar E. Rice, a white man, and John Kennedy, a negro, were put to death by electricity in the prison here to-day. The two executions took place within twenty minutes. Rice was supported to the electrlo chair at 5:13 a. m.. In a state of ' collapse, but Kennedy walked without assistance. A current of 1,750 volts was sent through Rice's body for fifty-one seconds. The same current was kept on nine seconds longer for Kennedy. The executions were successful and there was no unusual incident. Rice stabbed and slashed his wife, Mary, with a pocket knife on March 25, 1S93. The woman ran into the roadway, where she fell. Rice threw stones at her while she lay helpltss and then cut his own throat. Rice's wound was not serious, but the woman died. Kennedy stabbed John Hummings nine times on Oct. 9, 1S98. Hummings died almost Instantly. Both men were negroes. The murder was caused by Jealousy. TRAMPLED BY A BULL. Iovm. Farmer Killed and Two of Ills Wife's Ribs Crashed. FORT DODGE, Ia., Aug. 2.-Jobn Dirk went out in a pasture to-day, when he was attacked by a bull. His cries were heard by his wife, who ran to his assistance and together they drove the animal away. As they were leaving the bull attacked them again, knocking both down. Dirk told his wife he was dying and she managed to escape and summoned a neighbor, who fired two charges from a shotgun into the animal, driving it away. Dirk was killed, his body being trampled into in almost unrecognizable mass. Mr. Dirk had two ribs crushed. M0LINEUX ARRAIGNED. Pleaded Not Gnllty of the Polsonlns of Mrs. Kate J. Adams. NEW YORK, Aug. 2. Roland B. Mollneux was arraigned in general sessions to-day to plead to the indictment accusing him of poisoning Mrs. Kate J. Adams. His counsel demurred to the Indictment. Judge Blanchard overruled the demurrer. Mollneux pleaded not guilty. Mr. Weeks, of counsel for the prisoner, asked when the trial would take place. District Attorney Gardner said it would not take place in August, and he could not tell whether It would be held la September or not.

YELLOW FEVER

SITUATION AT nAMFTON, VA SAID TO BE 131 PROVING. Only Four Suspected Cases of the Test Reported Yesterday, and No Deaths Since Tuesday Night. AUTHORITIES MORE HOPEFUL CONFIDENT THE DISEASE WILL SOON BE STA3IPED OUT. Arrangements Completed for Sending All tho Troop Stationed at Fort 3Ionroe to Batteiy Point. PANIC AT AND NEAR NORFOLK STEA3IBOAT AND RAILROAD OFFICERS BESIEGED WITH PEOPLE. Everybody Trylnff to Get Away from the Infected District Efforts to Find the Fever Bacillus. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. Advices received by Surgeon General Wyman up to 9 o'clock to-night from Hampton show that the only change In the yellow fever situation is the addition of four suspected cases to those already in existence. These have been sent from the camp to the hospital. This information and the additional statement that there has not been a death since 7 o'clock last night and that everything with reference to the disease is more than favorable, was received from Governor P. T. Woodfln, of the soldiers home. He also wired that he is quite sure the pestilence will be stamped out. From Dr. White, who has general charge of affairs at Hampton, but who remains away from the institution, word came that the situation is unchanged. Governor Woodfln has prepared a list of all members of the home who have been furloughed since July 22, at the same time giving their destination. This will be telegraphed to Surgeon General Wyman and will be spread broadcast through the press, thus enabling municipalities where the inmates may now be to detain them for a reasonable length of time. Dr. Wyman has sent dispatches to the health commissioner of Baltimore and the president of the Board of Health of Richmond, asking them what measures are being taken regarding refugees from the home at Hampton or the adjoining town of Phoebus. The doctor thinks It is of the utmost importance that, all such persons should be kept under close observation for ten days following their departure, particularly those who stopped over one night in either place. Replies have been received from both places, showing the surgeon general the activity of the officials Interested and their ability to cope with the situation. Surgeon Farquhar, at Portsmouth, about twelve miles from Hampton, reports finding four colored people who had been at the latter place. The authorities sent them back to Hampton. Dr. Wyman does not think such course safe, however, and has directed Surgeon Farquhar hereafter not to send su:h persons back to Hampton, but to hava them taken to Craney island, where they may be detained under .observation; Dr. Wyman says that although Hampton Is not Infected, he thinks it best to take charge of people who may come from Hampton and keep them under observation for a limited period of time. Arrangements have been made to send to the home two Immune male and two immune female nurses and two immune physicians. ' TROOPS TO MOVE TO-DAY. The removal of troops from Fort Monroe and the officers and their families, it is expected will begin to-morrow, when a passenger steamer la scheduled to leave at 2 o'clock for Cape Charles. A barge with cars is expected to go-to the reservation tomorrow to take the baggage and equipment of troops over to Cape Charles. The quarantine ship Jamestown anchored in the waters of the bay will be made a sort of halfway landing place, where persons and suppiles may be landed from Norfolk and other places and then shipped to Old Point by launch, thence to be sent to Hampton. Dr. Wyman, surgeon general of the Marine Hospital Service, received a dispatch from Surgeon Pettus at Fort Monroe tonight saying there was nothing suspicious there. A train left this afternoon for Richmond with about 100 people. All were Inspected before boarding the train and made to prove they had not been exposed to infection. A steam launch Is patrolling the water front and guards are being sworn In as fast as they can be obtained. A dispatch from Dr. Wasdln says a house Inspection of the worst portion of Phoebus disclose nothing. The dispatch adds: "Suspicious case of last night verified. No new cases at the home to-day. One desperate." Dr. Wasdln said he will start to-morrow to canvass 1,500 of the inmates, then to disinfect the rookeries (presumably those at Phoebus.) Just before the close of the War Department to-day a final decision was reached to send the troops from Fort Monroe to Battery Point. Delaware. Surgeon General Wyman objected to locating the troops so far south, but General Merrltt held that It would be fatal In case any of the men were Infected to take them North, and In the end the latter's views prevailed. General Merrltt Is expected to make an arrangement for the execution of the order, even to securing the boats necessary to carry the men across Chesapeake bay to the railroad, which will carry them to Dattery Point, on the Delaware river. Secretary Root to-day found that the cere of the old soldiers at Hampton Roads was entirely within the power of the national board of soldiers' homes, and Informed the board that the War Department would do anything possible to assist in combating the fever. Word to the same effect was sent to Surgeon General Wyman. The department Is as yet Ignorant of the whereabouts of General Franklin, president of the board of national homes. Surgeon General Van Reypen, of the navy, has directed the surgeon in charge of the naval hospital at Norfolk to use every precaution to keep the yellow fever out. The hospital has a contagious disease building in the woods some distance from the main building. If there should be the slightest, symptoms of fever at the hospital the case will be removed .: to the contagious buUding, and, should a genuine case of ytl-

low fever develop. It will be taken to the quarantine station at Craniey island. Passengers arriving here from Norfolk, by boat, to escape the yellow fever, report a general exodus from Norfolk and vicinity. Every man who can afford It is srnding his family to a safe distance.' Business, they say, was practically suspended and steamboat and railroad offices are besieged with frightened people. One of the arriving citizens from Norfolk said that a Hveiy fight was making to keep the fever out of the city. Many sanitary Inspectors and special policemen have been appointed and citizens generally have turned in to clean up the city. Many alarming rumors were in circulation; one report, not verified up to the time the citizen left, was that there were Ave cases in a large town near Norfolk. No rumors prevailed of any cases in Norfolk itself. Two volunteer surgeons to-day tendered their services to General Wyman for duty In the Infected district. They are acting Assistant Surgeon S. D. Robbins of Vlcksburg, Miss., Assistant Surgeon John F. Anderson of New York, Dr. Frank Donaldson of New York, an immune, who has seen service in Cuba, left, this evening, for Newport News, under orders from Dr. Wyman. SITUATION AT NORFOLK.

The People Said to Be Recovering from Their Fright. NORFOLK, Va.. Aug. 2. The rigid quarantine measures which have been put into effect and the unanimity of the action on the part of the health authorities of the State and city have done much towards restoring confidence. It Is not believed here by those in the best position to know that the yellow fever will reach Norfolk, and the temporary fear which almost paralyzed citizens and killed business when the startling news from the Soldiers' Home first reached here, is gradually wearing away and commerce is once more thought of. It Is true that people are leaving Norfolk, but the exodus Is usual and Incident to the summer season. There Is some little fear here, but It is due more to the consequences of the quarantine regulations than to the fever Itself. Every possible precaution Is being taken. The -beach for a distance of five miles is patrolled night and day, while several tug boats and steamers are constantly on the lookout for any and all craft from the Infected district. The latest information from the home tonight is that there was one death and no new cases during the day. To-morrow all the old veterans of the home will be lodged in tents while the entire reservation is thoroughly disinfected. When the quarantine Inspectors met the Cannon Ball on the Norfolk & Western road this morning they found aboard, bound to Norfolk, twenty-one passengers who could not give the satisfactory account of themselves required by the health authorities of the city. The train was held at Tucker's, about five miles out from Norfolk, for two hours and finally the car containing the persons referred to was detached from the train to be sent back to Richmond. Yesterday afternoon Dr. NewbUI, president of the Board of Health, received from Governor Woodfln, of the home, the following dispatch: ."Please release Old Dominion steamer Hampton Roads for freight boat. Must have medicines and provisions. If entirely shut off I cannot control my men." The dispatch, together with a similar one from Colonel F. I. Guenther at Old Point, was turned over to Dr. Lynch, assistant quarantine officer, and to-day it was decided to send ail necessary provisions and medicines on a government tug from tho navy yard. Quarantine in Alabama. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 2. Governor Johnston to-night Issued a state quarantine, applying to persons and personal baggage, against the Soldiers' Home, Phoebus, Hampton, Old Folnt Comfort, Newport News and other places hereafter infected. This applies to all persons who have been in the above-named places within ten days before coming here. SEEKING THE GERM. Army Medical Corps Experimentingwith Yellow Fever. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. The prese: utbreak of yellow fever at the Hamptc 1dlers Home will give the army n jal corps an excellent opportunity to extenu en investigation It has been prosecuting for two years past into the nature of yellow fever and the best modes of combating It The Marine Hospital Service, which Is In charge of the quarantine In the Infected district, has been doing similar work, and Dr. Wasdln, the surgeon placed as an expert in the Hampton home, Is one of the two Marine Hospital surgeons who recently returned from Cuba, where they studied the disease in its permanent home and made collections of cultures for future observation. The medical world at present is very generally of opinion that the specific bacillus of yellow fever has not yet been identified. Recently the announcement was made by Sanarelll, an Italian scientist, that he had segregated the germ of yellow fever, and this claim was later affirmed by a German bacteriologist after somewhat less exhaustive research. Surgeon General Sternberg made a close study of the subject and isolated a bacillus, which he did not claim was the specific germ of yellow fever, but one worthy of closer study, calling it for convenience the ' "bacillus X." The army medical museum, under General Sternberg's directions, took up the subject, and Drs. Reed and Carroll recently Issued a preliminary note on the museum's investigations, in which they set forth the statement that so far as determined the bacillus of Sanarelll and the "bacillus X" of Sternberg were identical In their general form and their effects on the lower animals, and that both seemed to be Identical or very closely allied with the bacillus of hog cholera. The lesions produced by the three germs were the same, and samples of the suspected fever germs submitted to some of the most expert scientists in the line of agricultural chemistry and animal Industry were pronounced to be the germ of hog cholera. This seemed to leave the question open, but Drs. Reed and Carroll are continuing their researches with the intention of locating the active principle in yellow fever, whatever it Is. Meantime Dr. Doty, the health officer et New York, claims to have confirmed SanarelU's discovery and is carrying on a series of curative experiments with a serum for the destruction of the Sanarelll germ. The army medical officers say, however, that no germ which can stand a temperature of 3C1 degrees below zero can be the germ of yellow fever, which is known to cease its ravages on the appearance of frost. The Sanarelll germ was recently submerged In frozen air and came out ready for business. The report of Dr. Wasdln and Dr. Geddings, of the Marine Hospital, on their Cuban researches has not yet been mtde public, but It is understood they agree with Sanarelll. Four Cases at Santiago. SANTIAGO DE CUBA Aug. 2. Four cases of yellow fever have been reported In the last four days, the victims being American civilians. One case occurred in the Cosmopolitan Club. General Wood believes that there Is little danger of the Increase of the disease, as nearly all the people are Immune through having had the fever, or are isolated outside the town. The quarantine restrictions of the port and municipality are strictly observed. Only General Wood and his staff are In the city. The health of the troops at Songo remains good. General Wood will leave in a few days for Puerto Principe to inspect that division of his department. .

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K KEXTICKY STATUTES INADEQUATE TO m EVENT FEUD OUTBREAKS. Public Sentiment Also Seemingly Op posed to Pnnlshtnir Participants In the ritched Rattle,' BRADLEY'S REPLY TO CRITICS THE GOVERNOR PLAINLY SHOWS UO IS FOWERLESS TO ACT. His Recommendations that Proper Laws Re Enacted Unheeded by the Democratic Legislature. SITUATION IN CLAY COUNTY WHERE THE GRIFFINS. BAKERS, WHITES AND riHLrOTS HOLD SWAY. Denunciation of the Governor Merely for Political Effect Insincerity of Ills Democratic Opponents FRANKFORT. Ky.. Aug. 2. The following message on the Clay county situation has been Issued by Governor Bradley to the press for the public and the Legislature: "A number of newspapers have been ad vising as to my duties regarding the Clay, county matter and denouncing or criticising me for falling to do what they advised. It Is suggested by some that martial law be declared, by others that I at once arrest and have the violators of the law tried and summarily punished, etc. "The trouble In Clay county, while had enough, has been magnified by newspaper correspondents. Burch Stores, Wilea Howard, George Baker, Will White, John Baker, Frank Clark and Tom Baker, seven in number, have been killed in a period of something more than a year. The slayers of all these men have been Indicted, except those of John Baker, Frank Clark and Tom Baker. James Howard, who killed) George Baker, obtained a change of vs'nuo to Laurel, where he was convicted and subsequently the verdict was set aside, Torm Baker, on change of venue, was convicted of killing White; the Court of Appeals reversed the Judgment and he was subsequently balled on order of the Judge of the Xncoln Circuit Court. The slayers of Burch Stores and Wlls Howard were Indicted and obtained a change of venue to Knox county, where the cases are now pending, except that against Tom Baker, who was killed) shortly after the order of change of venua was made. So that all these cases hava been acted on except tho ihiee named and. every etep taken that can be had by law."I know nothing concerning the killing of any of these men except Tom Baker That was a most cowardly murder. The Circuit Court was then in session and about 125 soldiers were present. No grand Jury, was Impaneled and the soldiers, who were under the orders of the Judge, were ordered to take the other prisoners to Barboursvtlle So that. In this Instance, their presence did not affect anything, for which the Governor Is surely not responsible. CANNOT DECLARE MARTIAL. LAW. The suggestion that I declared martial law is ridiculous. The Constitution of Kentucky does not allow any law suspended except by the General Assembly or under it authority. The Courier-Journal very forcibly demonstrated the inability of the Governor to take such'a step. "As to the suggestion that the Governor arrest, try and convict these men, the wiseacres have probably forgotten that th powers of the Governor are merely executive and that he cannot try or pass sentence on criminals. This is purely tha prerogative of the Judiciary. It has beea suggested, however, that the Governor should appoint a circuit Judge and commonwealth's attorney, who would look after these cases. Unfortunately for these critics, the Governor has no such power. He cannot under the law appoint a pro tem, commonwealth's attorney under any state of case and cannot appoint a Judge unless the regular Judge is absent, declines to presida or Is sworn off the bench, and not even thea until the clerk holds an election and certifies to him that no one possessing the qualifications of circuit Judge was selected. And notwithstanding the Constitution and laws do not allow tho Governor to do these things, he is denounced and condemned for not doing them. In this instance the regular Judge is related to the Howards and cannot preside In any case where they ara Involved. The moment he declines Daugb; White, one of the parties to the feud and tho Circuit Court clerk, will hold an election. It may be safely assumed that ha would not take any step which would result In his injury. TROOPS AVAILED NOTHING. "But It Is suggested that the Governor has failed to do anything since the sending of troors at the time Tom Baker was killed, It may be said, in response, that the troop were then present and their presence availed nothing either In preserving Baker'a life or arresting his murderers. I might send soldiers to-day to preserve the peace, but owing to the character of warfare thereindulged in It would be next to Impossible for them to do anything. There are- not enough members of the State Guard In Kentucky to patrol that county. If sent there while the Circuit Court is not in session they could not be placed under the control of any local civil authority, owing to existing conditions, and past experience shows that when attending Circuit Court they wero powerless to save Tom Baker's life, and were not used to difend and protect a grand Jury In the investigation. Indeed, it may well be doubted whether a grand Jury would have found an Indictment if impaneled. The Governor cannot inspire grand Juries with the courage to Indict, witnesses with the courage to testify nor petit Juries with the courage to convict. 'The presence of toldiers might prevent pitched battles or rights by considerable bodies of men, but such conflicts are not common, and if such were contemplated they would occur doubtless at some point distant from the soldiers. Had the soldiers been in Manchester at the time the Griffins and Philpots had their more recent conflict they would not have prevented It. because the scene of the difficulty was about ten miles from Manchester. "It is contended by some that the Governor should interfere on account of this recent Phllrot controversy. It has not been a great while since four men were killed cn.